Daniel Kasak wrote: >> Please consider embracing C# > I don't think so. The minute people start rewriting bits of gnome in C# > is the minute I jump ship. So you'd stick with C, even if higher-level languages were used to write the GUI portions of applications (such as Python with PyGTK or C#/Mono with GTK#)? Even when those higher-level languages make the applications easier to maintain and develop cool new features for? For the record, GNOME already includes a few major applications written in C#: notably Tomboy [1], F-Spot [2], and Beagle [3]. I think people are more than aware of the > legal minefield Gnome would be wading into by embracing a Microsoft > technology such as C#. C# is not a Microsoft technology. Sure, they were one of the initiators of it, but the language itself is an accepted standard (ECMA-334 [4]) [1] http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy [2] http://f-spot.org/Main_Page [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_(software) [4] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ecma-st/ECMA-334.pdf (This PDF is pretty big: nearly 2.5 MiB. Evince handles it pretty well, though. ^_^) -- Peter Gordon (codergeek42) GnuPG Public Key ID: 0xFFC19479 / Fingerprint: DD68 A414 56BD 6368 D957 9666 4268 CB7A FFC1 9479 My Blog: http://thecodergeek.com/blog/
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